From: pat eyler Date: 2006-07-26T23:42:40+09:00 Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C On 7/26/06, Jay Levitt wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:47:13 +0900, Peter Hickman wrote: > > > In this post I want to clear some things up and provide benchmarks as to > > why you should take "Write it in C" seriously. > > This is a great post, and should at least be posted to a blog somewhere so > the masses who don't know about USENET can still find it on Google! well, I didn't post the original post (though I did link to it). I did post my take on it. At it's core: write it in Ruby and if it's too slow, profile it and rewrite the slow parts (in C if need be). Rewriting the whole app in C when Ruby makes cohabitating with C (or C++ or Objective C) so easy just seems pointless. My post is at http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/07/rubyinline-making-making-things-faster.html > > Jay > > -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com